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TIL 4% of people have never had a headache

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XdPX TIL the crew of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station have an annual winter tradition where they watch all three versions of “The Thing”, a horror film about an alien lifeform that attacks researchers on an Antarctic base.
vPVP7 TIL that eating spicy foods in hot weather will cool you down more than cold ice cream because spicy foods make you sweat which will cool you off more quickly and efficiently.
Z8W54 TIL a bruin bear was found on a ledge of a California bridge. Volunteers strung a net under the bear; officials shot it with a tranquilizer dart, nudged it with a pole onto the net, lowered it to the ground & steered it into the wild. The bridge where the bear was found is called "Rainbow Bridge."
X0OaX TIL That the last Civil War pension was paid in 2020 to the daughter of a soldier who fought for both the Confederacy and Union.
xrMB TIL Sony made a cassette tape that can store 185TB of data in 2014